1. See C.J. Friedrich and Z.K. Brzezinski, Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy, 2nd edn (New York, 1965).
2. See, for example, J. Arch Getty, Origins of the Great Purges: the Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933–38, (Cambridge, 1985),
3. and L.H. Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935–41 (Cambridge, 1988).
4. See Siegelbaum, op. cit., pp. 238–9; F. Benvenuti, Fuoco sui sabotatori! Stachanovismo e organizazzione industriale in URSS 1934–38 (Rome, 1988) pp. 135–8; Benvenuti, ‘Stakhanovism and Stalinism, 1934–38’, SIPS no. 30, (unpublished discussion paper, CREES, University of Birmingham) pp. 20–1.
5. M. Buckley, Women and Ideology in the Soviet Union (Hemel Hempstead, 1989) pp. 115–17;